> It might not be a bad idea to just make that "mention maintainer at the> top of the file" the common case.

You snipped the part I was actually interested in. Let me try again.

We're agreed that the files themselves are the best indicator of where toroute patches, and that MAINTAINERS isn't useful for much besides decidingwho should get IPO offers ;-). What I'm wondering is where I, as someonewho is listed in some of the Documentation/* stuff as its maintainer, shouldbe sending patches. You want a hierarchy, and I think that's perfectlyreasonable, but I have no idea who the layer of the hierarchy between me andyou is....later,chris